Christina Ray has produced artist projects, performances and site-specific interventions for city streets and exhibition spaces since founding Glowlab in 2002. As a consultant and educator, Ray has participated on panels and juries with Rhizome, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Eyebeam, the Van Alen Institute and others, and has taught interactive media at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Fluent in Japanese, Ray lived and worked in Japan for four years where she cultivated an aesthetic and cultural awareness that has influenced the growth of Glowlab’s international focus.

Ray is the founder of Conflux, the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, and has led the festival as Director since its inauguration in 2003. She is currently serving as Key Artistic Advisor for Times Square Public Art Planning with the Times Square Alliance and recently became a founding member of the Advisory Committee of the new 92YTribeca arts and entertainment venue, which opened in the fall of 2008. Ray also sits on the advisory committee of the Queens-based arts organization Flux Factory. In 2009, Ray’s work will be included in the books _A Guide to Democracy in America_, published by Creative Time, and _Critical Play_, written by Mary Flanagan and published by MIT Press. She is a frequent speaker on the intersection of art and emerging technology in public space.

Ray has collaborated with and received support from organizations including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Puffin Foundation, The Independence Community Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Williamsburg Gallery Association, Intel’s Berkeley Research Lab, Southern Exposure, ISEA, Art Interactive, ABC No Rio, Participant Inc., Parsons School of Design, Hunter College, the Cooper Union, the University of Pennsylvania Design School, the CUNY Graduate Center, the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island and others.

Glowlab is excited to announce the first solo exhibition of artist Mark Price, titled The New Real Fantasy Now. Showcasing his bold graphic style, Price’s works on paper present dark scenarios of technological chaos and deconstruction. Moving away from the figurative and into the abstract through innovative original drawings, silkscreen editions, monoprints and wall paintings, Price reveals the anti-celebrity and absent hero: the Non-Character.

The story of The New Real Fantasy Now continues Price’s exploration and critique of economic and social conditions. Infused with a rich visual aesthetic, an introspective geometric landscape is superimposed by highly stylized explosions and cryptic language. Out of the wreckage the Non-Character triumphs, striking its suffocated poses and revealing that nothing exists in the territory of The New Real Fantasy Now.

Concurrently with his Glowlab exhibition, Price will release a self-published volume entitled 20XX - The New Real Fantasy Now. The limited edition of fifty, silkscreen printed and numbered by the artist, will be a collection of writings and drawings further exploring the work presented in the exhibition.

Mark Price, a member of the Philadelphia based artist collective Space 1026, was the recipient of the Xeric Grant in 2006. He has self-produced two books completely silkscreen printed by hand. In addition to showing with Glowlab in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Chicago and Miami he has exhibited his prints at Foundation Gallery in Chicago, Giant Robot in San Francisco, Padlock Gallery in Philadelphia, and Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles. Mark has also shown his work as part of Space 1026 at Lobot in Oakland, 96 Gillespie in London, England, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, The Magic Pony in Toronto, and The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. He lives and works in Philadelphia.